The days of Donovan Mitchell peppering Salt Lake City’s highlight reels with sweet-to-see highlights might’ve been cut from 41 regular-season games to just one, but Cleveland’s star compensated for lost time by sprinkling one-of-a-kind displays into March 23, 2025’s appearance. Well-spoken on his love for the game of baseball, Mitchell becomes basketball’s version of a right fielder, escaping Isaiah Collier’s harassment through a pick-and-roll before slinging an across-the-court cannonball — through multiple defenders’ arms, no less — to a teammate. Equally accurate, Mitchell’s catch-and-shoot specialist of a teammate finds the net’s bottom, undoubtedly securing the two a spot on the end-of-night “top play” countdown. Finding the cure for four-game cold spells to, evidently, be fireball passes, Mitchell helped coordinate a 29-point win for the Cleveland Cavaliers, allowing them to again look the part of the Eastern Conference’s No. 1 regular-season team. Unneeding of any electrifying scoring display on this night, Mitchell cruised to a 16-point, three-rebound, four-assist, two-steal showing in just 21 minutes. · Mar 23, 2025